[erlang-questions] rebar3 tar and endless loop

[Alexander Petrovsky]

Hi!

Sorry, the priv folder was just for example, for other user folders the
problem is still take a place. Would be great to hear rebar3 maintainers
opinion.

ср, 8 нояб. 2017 г. в 11:44, Dmitry Kolesnikov <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
>
> The private folder of applications are automatically added to the release.
> There are not need to add an overlay. You can move your root /priv folder
> under you application x.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dmitry
>
>
> On 8 Nov 2017, at 0.25, Alexander Petrovsky <askjuise@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I try to prepare erlang release, with follow config:
>
> {relx, [
>>     {release, {x, "0.0.1"},
>>          [x,
>>           sasl]},
>>     {overlay, [
>>          {copy, "priv/*", "priv/"}
>>     ...
>> ./rebar3 release
>
>
> But, relx doesn't support wildcard. I'm try the follow config:
>
>     ...
>>          {copy, "priv/", "priv/"}
>>     ...
>> ./rebar3 release
>
>
> Unfortunately, the result will be *priv/priv*. But when I do:
>
>     ...
>>          {copy, "priv/", "./"}
>>     ...
>> ./rebar3 release
>
>
> Everything goes without problems. But, when I'm try to make tarball from
> that here problems come: the *./rebar3 tar* goes to endless loop
> continuously add *x-0.0.1.tar.gz* to himself.
>
> The *./rebar3 tar* keep archive tar.gz file in the same directory with
> generated erlang release files. So, when rebar3 sees mappings like {copy,
> "priv/", "./"} it's transforms them into something like
>
> [{"./",           "/Users/juise/Documents/x/_build/default/rel/x"},
>>  {"log/sasl", "/Users/juise/Documents/x/_build/default/rel/x/log/sasl"}]
>
>
> which cause endless loop.
>
> I see multiple solutions:
> - ./rebar3 tar must archive all files in release directory, and not pay
> attention to overlay directive;
> - relx should ignore mappings like {"./",
> "/Users/juise/Documents/x/_build/default/rel/x"};
> - erl_tar should explicitly ignore result archive and don't add to himself.
>
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>
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> Phone: +7 931 9877991
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Петровский Александр / Alexander Petrovsky,

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